December 2009

Fake heroines and the falsification of history in Zimbabwe 1980 - 2009

  The ideology of femocracy is so entrenched in Zimbabwean politics that it has become a tradition. It started as a tendency during the liberation struggle of making room and integrating a few women into politics. After independence, it developed into a habit of promoting the same women who had been exposed during the liberation struggle into political offices. Finally, at independence it became a tradition...

Author(s):   Dorothy Goredema and Percyslage Chigora  

December 2009

Cultivation of positive cultural values and practices: A blueprint for African development

  This paper investigates the influence of culture on development within the context of cultural values and practices in African societies. It limits its searchlight to the communal stage of African development. It operates on the assumption that a dialectical relationship exists between the past, the present and the future. It supposes that a faithful consideration of the merits and demerits of past events can...

Author(s):   Opafola S. Olayinka